History Main / BloodierandGorier

* Music/{{Eminem}}'s early work was known for its outrageous HeroicComedicSociopath violence, but it was also treated as cartoon slapstick with MajorInjuryUnderreaction, [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud silly sound effect adlibs inserted between lines]], Eminem's [[StepfordSmiler cheerful delivery]], and the effects of the violence not really being dwelled on. While his work is considered {{Horrorcore}}, the cartoonish silliness of the execution led to it being Tex Avery-core if anything. His post-overdose comeback album, ''Relapse'', indulges in far more graphic violence with the outcomes being dwelled on.

** Creator/GenndyTartakovsky decided to [[UpToEleven one up himself]] with his next Adult Swim project, ''WesternAnimation/{{Primal 2019}}'', where main characters Spear and Fang get into plenty of gory and brutal fights with all sorts of [[PrehistoricMonster Prehistoric Monsters]]. One of ape men with such ferocity most simply explode into chunks of organs and flesh when he punches them.

* In the early episodes of ''WesternAnimation/Sealab2021'', the characters underwent throught AmusingInjuries, but in later seasons, more graphic violence began appear on the show.

* The Red Lanterns are a Bloodier And Gorier Franchise/GreenLantern Corps, who [[BloodyMurder vomit blood as a weapon]]. One of them is ''a furry blue cat''.

** ''The Simpsons'' in general was much more violent than any mainstream cartoon series that had preceded it when it first aired in 1989-1990. Even if you leave out the ''Itchy & Scratchy'' sequences (which often take the BloodyHilarious trope and run with it), there have been quite a few examples of bloody violence being PlayedForLaughs and/or shock value. "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E8BartTheDaredevil Bart the Daredevil]]", for example, ends with Homer falling down a cliff, much as [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Wile E. Coyote]] or [[WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}]] once did. But instead of BloodlessCarnage, we have Homer getting busted open with every rock and crag his body impacts on the way down, so that by the time he hits the bottom he is grotesquely bruised and has blood smeared on his face. Then the skateboard he rode down on bonks him on the head. (And ''then'', after they airlift Homer out of the gorge on a stretcher, the ambulance hits a tree, causing Homer to roll out and fall down the cliff ''again'', [[CrossesTheLineTwice getting his bandages torn open and accumulating even more injuries]]!) It was obviously intended to depict Homer as an IronButtMonkey, but it almost certainly frightened or unnerved many children.

** ''The Simpsons'' in general was much more violent than any mainstream cartoon series that had preceded it when it first aired in 1989-1990. Even if you leave out the ''Itchy & Scratchy'' sequences (which often take the BloodyHilarious trope and run with it), there have been quite a few examples of bloody violence being PlayedForLaughs and/or shock value. "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E8BartTheDaredevil Bart the Daredevil]]", for example, ends with Homer falling down a cliff, much as [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Wile E. Coyote]] or [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Goofy]] once did. But instead of BloodlessCarnage, we have Homer getting busted open with every rock and crag his body impacts on the way down, so that by the time he hits the bottom he is grotesquely bruised and has blood smeared on his face. Then the skateboard he rode down on bonks him on the head. (And ''then'', after they airlift Homer out of the gorge on a stretcher, the ambulance hits a tree, causing Homer to roll out and fall down the cliff ''again'', [[CrossesTheLineTwice getting his bandages torn open and accumulating even more injuries]]!) It was obviously intended to depict Homer as an IronButtMonkey, but it almost certainly frightened or unnerved many children.

** A special mention goes to the scene where Poppy destroys the Strings, drastically changed from the movie and applying BodyHorror at its finest. Whereas she suffered no actual harm whatsoever in the movie (only seemingly getting her colors taken away before "Just Sing"), she ends up badly burned here, to the point of vomiting blood.

*** Pretty much everyone who dies in ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye More Than Meets the Eye]]'' die [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath nasty]], ''[[{{Gorn}} nasty]]'' deaths. James Roberts seems to have taken the notion that "gore isn't impactful if it's robots and not red" as his own personal challenge.

* ''Series/ThePunisher2017'' outright dips into {{Gorn}} with its AntiHero, managing to make the already gory ''Daredevil'' look incredibly tame in comparison.

* ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'', while surprisingly tame on the violence in the first three acts, later acts become a lot more gruesome than Creator/AndrewHussie's previous work, ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'', when one of the villains ascends to near godhood and uses those powers to slaughter an enemy army and cover the battlefield with their blood. Becomes an InvokedTrope when the story moves on to the [[OurTrollsAreDifferent troll's side of the story]], where AlienBlood plays an important role, and [[HighPressureBlood there are]] [[{{Gorn}} lots of it.]]

** ''The Simpsons'' in general was much more violent than any mainstream cartoon series that had preceded it when it first aired in 1989-1990. Even if you leave out the ''Itchy & Scratchy'' sequences (many of which are full-fledged {{Gorn}}), there have been quite a few examples of bloody violence being PlayedForLaughs and/or shock value. "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E8BartTheDaredevil Bart the Daredevil]]", for example, ends with Homer falling down a cliff, much as [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Wile E. Coyote]] or [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Goofy]] once did. But instead of BloodlessCarnage, we have Homer getting busted open with every rock and crag his body impacts on the way down, so that by the time he hits the bottom he is grotesquely bruised and has blood smeared on his face. Then the skateboard he rode down on bonks him on the head. (And ''then'', after they airlift Homer out of the gorge on a stretcher, the ambulance hits a tree, causing Homer to roll out and fall down the cliff ''again'', [[CrossesTheLineTwice getting his bandages torn open and accumulating even more injuries]]!) It was obviously intended to depict Homer as an IronButtMonkey, but it almost certainly frightened or unnerved many children.

** It's not hard to be bloodier and gorier than ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'', but ''ComicBook/AfterlifeWithArchie'' is quite violent. Within the first chapter, Hot Dog gets hit by a car, turns into a zombie, and bites Jughead. It's as gory as you'd expect from a ZombieApocalypse comic, and it's done in a far less cartoony art-style than the original comic.

* The ''Fanfic/TheOtherSide'' fanfic series, an adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TrollsWorldTour'', isn't necessarily darker and edgier than the original movie (asides from other fanfics integrated into the multiverse that the second fanfic follows upon), but is full of violence and [[ActionizedAdaptation action]] compared to the movie's mild use of it. While the violent sequences start off somewhat light, they eventually get really graphic and brutalized, with some characters bringing themselves to BloodKnight levels. Even characters like [[AllLovingHero Poppy]] (who might probably take the cake out of the entire cast, since her fighting style is just ''that extreme'') are not immune to this. And even unlike Creator/DreamWorksAnimation's more actionized movies/franchises such as ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' and ''Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon'', it's exempt of {{Gory Discretion Shot}}s. This is an especially jarring case for a fan work out of [=DreamWorks=]' first franchise ''explicitly aimed at children''.

* The ''Fanfic/TheOtherSide'' fanfic series, an adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TrollsWorldTour'', isn't necessarily darker and edgier than the original movie (asides from other fanfics integrated into the multiverse that the second fanfic follows upon), but is full of violence and [[ActionizedAdaptation action]] compared to the movie's mild use of it. While the violent sequences start off somewhat light, they eventually get really graphic and brutalized, with some characters bringing themselves to BloodKnight levels. Even characters like [[AllLovingHero Poppy]] (who might probably take the cake out of the entire cast, since her fighting style here is just ''that extreme'') are not immune to this. And even unlike Creator/DreamWorksAnimation's more actionized movies/franchises such as ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' and ''Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon'', it's exempt of {{Gory Discretion Shot}}s. This is an especially jarring case for a fan work out of [=DreamWorks=]' first franchise ''explicitly aimed at children''.

* The ''Fanfic/TheOtherSide'' fanfic series, an adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TrollsWorldTour'', isn't necessarily darker and edgier than the original movie (asides from other fanfics integrated into the multiverse that the second fanfic follows upon), but is full of violence and [[ActionizedAdaptation action]] compared to the movie's mild use of it. While the violent sequences start off somewhat light, they eventually get really graphic and brutalized, with some characters bringing themselves to BloodKnight levels. Even characters like [[AllLovingHero Poppy]] (who might probably take the cake out of the entire cast, since her fighting style here is just ''extreme, and [[AntiHero she even enjoys it!]]'') are not immune to this. And even unlike Creator/DreamWorksAnimation's more actionized movies/franchises such as ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' and ''Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon'', it's exempt of {{Gory Discretion Shot}}s. This is an especially jarring case for a fan work out of [=DreamWorks=]' first franchise ''explicitly aimed at children''.

* The ''Fanfic/TheOtherSide'' fanfic series, an adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TrollsWorldTour'', isn't necessarily darker and edgier than the original movie (asides from other fanfics integrated into the multiverse that the second fanfic follows upon), but is full of violence and [[ActionizedAdaptation action]] compared to the movie's mild use of it. While the violent sequences start off somewhat light, they eventually get really graphic and brutalized, with some characters bringing themselves to BloodKnight levels. Even characters like [[AllLovingHero Poppy]] (who might probably take the cake out of the entire cast, since her fighting style is just ''extreme, and [[AntiHero she even enjoys it!]]'') are not immune to this. And even unlike Creator/DreamWorksAnimation's more actionized movies/franchises such as ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' and ''Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon'', it's exempt of {{Gory Discretion Shot}}s. This is an especially jarring case for a fan work out of [=DreamWorks=]' first franchise ''explicitly aimed at children''.

* The ''Fanfic/TheOtherSide'' fanfic series, an adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TrollsWorldTour'', isn't necessarily darker and edgier than the original movie (asides from other fanfics integrated into the multiverse that the second fanfic follows upon), but is full of violence and [[ActionizedAdaptation action]] compared to the movie's mild use of it. While the violent sequences start off somewhat light, they eventually get really graphic and brutalized, with some characters bringing themselves to BloodKnight levels. Even characters like [[AllLovingHero Poppy]] are not immune to this. And even unlike Creator/DreamWorksAnimation's more actionized movies/franchises such as ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' and ''Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon'', it's exempt of {{Gory Discretion Shot}}s. This is an especially jarring case for a fan work out of [=DreamWorks=]' first franchise ''explicitly aimed at children''.

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': It has more BodyHorror than any of the canon Film/MonsterVerse installments, to say nothing of the {{Cruel and Unusual Death}}s.

In the United States, when the Hays Office disbanded in favor of the MPAA rating system, along with everything else, films got bloodier. One aspect of this was remakes of horror films. This trope often involves the presence of MadeOfPlasticine and LudicrousGibs that were absent in the original. It's often achieved by simply averting the InverseLawOfSharpnessAndAccuracy, or turning the {{Badbutt}} and/or BadassPacifist into a full-fledged badass.

In the United States, when the Hays Office disbanded in favor of the MPAA rating system, along with everything else, films got bloodier. One aspect of this was remakes of horror films. This trope often involves the presence of MadeOfPlasticine and LudicrousGibs that were absent in the original. It's often achieved by simply averting the InverseLawOfSharpnessAndAccuracy or turning the {{Badbutt}} and/or BadassPacifist into a full-fledged badass.

In the United States, when the Hays Office disbanded in favor of the MPAA rating system, along with everything else, films got bloodier. One aspect of this was remakes of horror films. This trope often involves the presence of MadeOfPlasticine and LudicrousGibs that were absent in the original. It's often achieved by simply averting the InverseLawOfSharpnessAndAccuracy or turning the {{Badbutt}} into a full-fledged badass.

In the United States, when the Hays Office disbanded in favor of the MPAA rating system, along with everything else, films got bloodier. One aspect of this was remakes of horror films, which often involved the presence of MadeOfPlasticine and LudicrousGibs that were absent in the original. It's often achieved by simply averting the InverseLawOfSharpnessAndAccuracy or turning the {{Badbutt}} into a full-fledged badass.

In the United States, when the Hays Office disbanded in favor of the MPAA rating system, along with everything else, films got bloodier. One aspect of this was remakes of horror films. Often this involves the presence of MadeOfPlasticine and LudicrousGibs that were absent in the original. It's often achieved by simply averting the InverseLawOfSharpnessAndAccuracy or turning the {{Badbutt}} into a full-fledged badass.

** A special mention goes to the scene where Poppy destroys the Strings, drastically changed from the movie and applying BodyHorror at its finest. Whereas she suffered no actual harm whatsoever in the movie (only seemingly getting her colors taken away before "Just Sing"), she ends up badly burned here, to the point of vomiting blood in the process.

** A scene of special mention is how Poppy destroying the Strings is changed from the movie, which applies BodyHorror. Whereas she suffered no actual harm whatsoever in the movie (only seemingly getting her colors taken away before "Just Sing"), here she ends up badly burned, vomiting blood in the process.

** Special mention should go to their parody of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', where just about every single injury of people who weren't wearing full-body armor had pretty realistic-acting bloodspill. This was probably to compensate for all the pain Creator/SethMacfarlane had with [[TastesLikeDiabetes Ewoks]] and [[ExecutiveMeddling FOX's pressuring]].

Compare {{Gorn}}, MadeOfPlasticine (which this trope almost always involves), {{Grimmification}}, ObligatorySwearing and DenserAndWackier. Contrast LighterAndSofter, {{Bowdlerize}} and {{Disneyfication}}.

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* By Creator/{{Sanrio}} standards, the second and third seasons of the Creator/{{Netflix}} series ''Anime/{{Aggretsuko}}'' could be considered one of the company's bloodiest works. While the company [[BloodlessCarnage rarely shows any depictions of blood]] [[Anime/OnegaiMyMelody in]] [[Toys/{{Jewelpet}} any]] [[Anime/{{Mewkledreamy}} of their]] works. [[note]] Blood was shown once in an episode of ''Onegai My Melody''. [[/note]] Blood is shown twice in the second season. [[spoiler: The first is when Retsuko gets a bloody nose when she falls on her face while searching for Anai. The second is at a driving school, where Retsuko is taking a class so she can get her driver's license. One class lecture has her being taught about driver safety, and one of the slides in the slideshow features a possibly deceased bird complete with a bloody smashed windshield. Retsuko leaves the class in shock and feels nauseated.]]
** It should be noted that this only applies to their TV series. Sanrio's earlier films from the 70s and 80s had no qualms showing blood, most notably ''Anime/RingingBell'' and ''[[Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon Be Invoked]]''. And unlike ''Aggretsuko'', which is aimed at adults, these were [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids children's movies]]!
* ''Anime/BerserkTheGoldenAgeArc'' film trilogy is far more violent and bloody than the [[Anime/{{Berserk}} 1997 TV anime]] was -- as well as [[TruerToTheText truer to the manga, which was as violent as all get out]].
* The ''Manga/BirdyTheMighty'' remake manga, a {{Seinen}} series is more violent and gruesome the original, which was a {{Shonen|Demographic}} series. Likewise, Season 2 of ''Decode'' was more violent than the OVA and Season 1, as it involved being more violent than Season 1, as Season 2 features dismemberment, heads being crushed in, and at one point, a character getting his eye stabbed.
* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' already was a very violent series with gunshots and blood aplenty, but the OVA adaptation of El Baile De La Muerte arc [[UpToEleven turns up the violence even more]] with things to bodies disintegrating into PinkMist, chainsaws going through a grown, alive man's torso and everything in-between.
* Promptly after its anime adaptation ended, ''{{Manga/Bleach}}'' has seen a significant rise in gorier violence and deaths, adding to the noticeably DarkerAndEdgier tone it took beginning with the final arc.
* ''Anime/BloodC'', compared to the [[Anime/BloodTheLastVampire previous]] [[Anime/BloodPlus two]] series in the franchise, where the [[{{Gorn}} blood and gore]] are ''significantly'' upped, and far more detailed.
* ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan'' could be considered a bloodier and gorier SpiritualSuccessor to ''Anime/MagicalWitchPuniechan''.
* The manga adaptation of ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'' is considerably bloodier (and gorier) than the original video game, especially compared to international versions.
** Admittedly, a ''big'' chunk of this is because ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'' (the game) suffered particularly severe {{Bowdlerization}}, ''especially'' in the international releases. [[note]]A notable example included an AbortedArc featuring WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Fou-lu decapitating usurper Soniel with the very EvilWeapon Soniel had tried to use to kill him. In non-Japanese non-Playstation releases, this scene ended up completely cut from the game, despite the fact it was depicted only via silhouette.[[/note]] Also, the manga was published in ''Comic Blade Avarus'' which is geared towards young adult women.
*** The manga did a major TakeThat in regards to that {{Bowdlerized}} scene[[note]]involving Soniel's decapitation[[/note]], not only making it Bloodier And Gorier but turning the original moment, UpToEleven.
* ''Manga/CellsAtWorkCodeBlack'' gets much grislier than [[Manga/CellsAtWork its shonen counterpart]], fitting its DangerousWorkplace themes. While ''Cells at Work!'' doesn't shy away from having its own share of blood and guts, they reserved that for the invading bacteria. In ''CODE BLACK'', the body is so dysfunctional ''all'' cells have a chance to end up as corpses, and a lot of them can and will die on the job. As a result, ''CODE BLACK'' gets a rare 18+ rating in the US.
* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' is a rare example of the anime being more violent than the manga. In the manga, most amputations result in BloodlessCarnage, but in the anime, [[HighPressureBlood those same amputations result in gallons of blood spraying all over the place.]] Whether it's a red blood for humans, or [[AlienBlood purple blood for the Yoma.]]
* ''Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool'' compared to the other Hope's Peak Saga games that preceded it. Most deaths happen on-screen rather than being shown after the fact, the murders are brutal, and the ''Future'' portion of the series frequently features red blood instead of the franchise's usual pink. Rather than the over-the-top minute-long executions featured in the games, the anime's lone execution is the central focus of a third of an ''entire episode'', and pretty much is TorturePorn where the victim slowly gets more bloodied by traps until [[spoiler:Chiaki outright gets impaled at the end]].
* ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' is already a violent and grotesque affair back to its 70's roots. But the alternative sequel ''Amon'' cranks the violence even higher up, showing more blood, gore and nastiness in its 45-minute run than the whole TV-series did in 39 episodes. Similarly, ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby'' cranks up both the gore ''and'' sex, combined with an overdose of DerangedAnimation.
* ''Manga/DGrayMan'' had its first anime adaptation [[{{Bowdlerize}} considerably toned down its]] {{Gorn}} for an early evening broadcast on Creator/TVTokyo. (Not helping that this was during its MoralGuardian days where they also [[LighterAndSofter cut out much of the violence and blood]] out of fellow ''Shounen Jump'' properties ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' and ''especially'' ''Manga/Reborn2004''). Come 2016, when ''D.Gray-Man Hollow'', a SequelSeries to the first anime debuted, showed ''a lot'' more of the gore and violence from the original manga, and was not at all toned down, due to a mix of its [[OtakuOClock late night airtime]], and a more lenient TV Tokyo as a whole. (Especially since fellow very violent anime like ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' and ''LightNovel/ReZero'' also air late at night on the channel.)
* The ''Franchise/DragonBall'' franchise definitely fits the bill. When you compare the tone and nature of ''Manga/DragonBall'' to that of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', it's night and day. Granted, ''Dragon Ball'' became violent in its final arc (King Piccolo), but in ''Z'' the blood and gore are [[StealthPun off the scale]]: limbs being torn off; characters ''regularly'' coughing up rivers of blood; ''children'' being tortured, murdered in cold blood or paralyzed; mass genocide of entire races; people being decapitated... and the Namek Saga [[UpToEleven gets even worse]]. On top of that, the manga is even '''more violent''': if anybody were to explode it would start raining blood and if anybody's head was crushed or destroyed (which happened ''very'' frequently), you would see '''parts of their brain splatter all over the place'''.
* ''Manga/TheElectricTaleOfPikachu'' doesn't use BloodlessCarnage, unlike the [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} anime]] it is based off of. Ritchie and Ash's battle ends with [[spoiler:Ash's Charizard nearly killing Ritchie's]].
* Mocked in the unaired final episode of ''Anime/ExcelSaga'', appropriately titled "Going Too Far". Hyatt coughs up enough blood to [[spoiler: flood the planet.]]
* One would never have expected that ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' could ever be made bloodier, but ''New Fist of the North Star/Shin Hokuto No Ken'' shows more splattering blood and brain matter in more loving detail than anything else from this series, before or after.
** Hell, compare the TV series to the 1986 movie. For the first time, Toei Animation got to show all the LudicrousGibs the original manga had to offer, and with an impressively high budget (by anime standards) to boot! That is, until MoralGuardians forced the producers to [[{{Bowdlerization}} blur, tint, and cut out]] any gore that wasn't just HighPressureBlood or a FreezeFrameBonus.
* ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'' has some scenes that are more violent than anything from [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime adaptation]].
* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' has both an anime and an OVA, the second of which follows the manga's plot more closely. While both series have their share of blood and gore, the OVA takes {{Ludicrous Gibs}} to [[UpToEleven another level entirely]], which in of itself gets much more grisly at the series goes. Compare Alexander Anderson's attack on Seras at the beginning to Zorin Blitz's death. Hellsing isn't just bloodier and gorier than other series, it's bloodier and gorier than Hellsing, too.
* The Manga adaption to ''Manga/InazumaEleven'' has more blood and detailed injury scenes than in the original.
* ''Franchise/LupinIII'' is a series generally known for its lighthearted antics and BloodlessCarnage; even the more adult manga and versions of the show generally avoid the gorier aspects in favor of stylized violence. Therefore, most Lupin fans found the appropriately named ''Anime/GoemonIshikawasSprayOfBlood'', focusing on Lupin's samurai companion, rather shocking in how it averts the old style hard, and is full of [[AnArmAndALeg severed limbs]], HighPressureBlood, and [[FlayingAlive gruesome injuries]].
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':
** ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'', in addition to being DarkerAndEdgier, also ramped up the blood and gore. Where previous seasons kept the casualty count of InnocentBystanders off-screen, ''Force'' introduced the new villains by having one of them leave a bloody trail of dead nuns. Where previous seasons reserved bloody battles for {{Wham Episode}}s or final battles, every battle in ''Force'' has had one or both sides being covered in blood or losing limbs without a GoryDiscretionShot. Where the bloodiest thing that happened in the previous seasons is impalement, the ''Force'' season has the Eclipse Infection as its main focus, which makes people undergo BodyHorror that ends with them exploding in a shower of blood and brains.
** While the ''Nanoha'' franchise has never shied away from blood before, ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaDetonation Detonation]]'' is by far the most visceral carnage seen so far (with the possible exception of ''[[Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce Force]]''), which includes the slaughter of the Planet Restoration Committee, [[spoiler:the aftermath of Nanoha and Fate [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe blowing Maxwell apart]], and Nanoha's battle with the last Iris Unit that ends with [[AnArmAndALeg her missing a arm]].]]
* ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed Gundam SEED]]'' and ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00]]''. While the franchise has never been a stranger to violence (being a relatively pessimistic, down-to-earth HumongousMecha vehicle), these two shows were where we really got to see the horrifying effects of its signature immensely powerful sci-fi weaponry, as characters were torn apart by energy beams or simply popped like balloons by microwave emitters. Even the interpersonal violence became a little more visceral, with gunshot wounds causing their victims to twitch and bleed copiously. And then there's ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans]]'', which is possibly the first ''Gundam'' series to be given a TV-MA rating, and features such charming fates as being crushed by your own cockpit.
* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'':
** The anime adaptation really turns up the blood involved in the fights. In the USJ arc, Aizawa and Shigaraki's injuries are particularly more gruesome than in the manga, full on with pools of blood oozing out of them. Any injuries given are also depicted in loving detail.
** Later arcs become even more gruesome as the manga and anime get DarkerAndEdgier, [[CerebusSyndrome starting with the]] [[KnightOfCerebus Stain]] arc, whose own Quirk involves [[BloodMagic paralyzing the heroes by drawing then tasting their blood]].
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' generally averted BloodlessCarnage, but the StealthSequel series ''Manga/UQHolder'' amps up the violence. In ''Negima'' seeing a major character lose an arm was generally a huge shock. In ''UQ Holder!'', the protagonist gets dismembered in the opening chapter, he wins his first fight by [[ItMakesSenseInContext letting his opponent decapitate him]], and later on [[spoiler: literally has his heart punched out of his chest]]. Good thing the series is about immortals.
* ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion End of Evangelion]]'', where the original GainaxEnding was replaced with mass slaughter. At least to start with.
** The second ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' movie has the Angel Sahaquiel's death go from a standard enormous explosion to transforming into a tsunami of blood that engulfs Tokyo-3.
* Played for morbid laughs in ''Manga/OnePiece.'' Roronoa Zoro [[SerialEscalation loses progressively more blood in each]] of his major one-on-one fight scenes as a subtle RunningGag. Keep in mind that, according to WordOfGod, he had already lost [[BeyondTheImpossible nearly twice as much blood as a human body can survive]] through during his ''fourth'' fight. The pool of blood seen in the aftermath of his fight with [[spoiler:Kuma]] takes this UpToEleven. Although it stops being funny when it turns out he [[spoiler: didn't completely recover after that last incident...]]
* ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'':
** The manga in general, when compared to the [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} anime]] and [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} games]]. See the infamous scene where an Arbok gets non-lethally [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe chopped in half]] for an example.
** While battles generally still aren't ultra violent and bloody, the six generation stands out with [[spoiler: Rayquaza sucker punching Zinnia in the gut hard enough for her to ''vomit'' copious amount of blood, and the amount around Lysandre's head when he fell from a serious height into some spiky rocks.]]
* Due to the monochrome color it's hard to tell what's blood and what's bruising, but ''Manga/PokemonDiamondAndPearlAdventure'' is more violent than its [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl source game]]. It's especially noticeable during the Hareta versus [[spoiler:Mitsumi]] battle.
* ''Anime/PsychoPassTheMovie'' is free from the censors put up by TV networks where they can show lots of people getting down brutally. While it's known that being blown up by the Dominator's Lethal Eliminator mode is gruesome, the movie shows the actual remains of it.
* ''Franchise/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'':
** The [[AnimeFirst manga adaptation]] of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''. It's basically exactly the same story, except less understated in every way, including this one. Lo and behold, an already scary series gets [[UpToEleven even scarier]].
** Likewise in SpinOff manga, ''Manga/PuellaMagiOrikoMagica'', ''Oriko'''s very first chapter has people being eaten alive.
** ''Manga/PuellaMagiKazumiMagica'', the other SpinOff manga, [[spoiler: suddenly gets much more violent from [[WhamEpisode Chapters 4 onward]] when the story takes a sudden turn towards CerebusSyndrome. Like ''Oriko'', it is also more violent than the parent series.]]
* The ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' movies and TV specials are a lot bloodier than the show, notable examples include in the first movie Happosai gets stabbed in the neck with a kunai and a lot of blood flows from the wound and Monlon entangles Ranma in her lute strings shredding one of his arms and causing a lot of blood to spray.
* The manga of ''Manga/SandsOfDestruction'' doesn't shy away from blood at all, whereas both the original game and anime adaptation used plenty of BloodlessCarnage (despite the heroine's {{BFS}}).
* InUniverse, the virtual worlds of ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' become this for the ''Alicization'' arc. Justified in that the first two seasons dealt with virtual videogames, while Underworld is a more hyper-realistic virtual simulator designed for ''combat'' purposes (which includes having no pain absorber), hence why the wounds the characters suffer in it are a lot nastier.
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' ''[[TheMovie Lagann-hen]]'' was pretty bloody compared to the original series. Simon [[BloodFromTheMouth coughs up blood]] twice, [[TitleDrop the]] Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann bleeds, the Anti Spiral bleeds... It probably helped that Gainax wasn't bound to the Saturday morning timeslot.
* ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' turns into this about halfway through the series. While the anime completely bypasses that part, the manga gives us quite a few nice and bloody scenes. It starts with [[spoiler: Fai's EyeScream in [[CrapsackWorld Acid Tokyo]]]] and skyrockets when it reaches Celes Arc. Complete {{Deconstruction}} of the happy-go-lucky GottaCatchEmAll kinda love story (full of [[HoYay subtext]]) that you just sit there wondering [[MindScrew what the hell just happened]].
* ''Franchise/WhenTheyCry'':
** ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', when compared to [[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry its predecessor]]. It was so violent, Japanese TV stations had to pixelate it.
** Speaking of ''Higurashi'', the manga compared to the anime. It's much gorier (but is [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids still aimed at teens]]).
** Most of the individual arcs of both of these shows get Bloodier and Gorier over time.
* ''Manga/{{X1999}}'' is already a very gory manga, but TheMovie takes the {{Gorn}} UpToEleven, especially with Kotori's death, which depicts ''her organs'' being splattered right out of her body. Inverted with the TV adaptation, which while more faithful to the manga's story and characters, tones down some of the more violent scenes. (Kotori's aformentioned death, and the infamous EyeScream are both turned into a GoryDiscretionShot.)
* ''Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero'''s prequel ''LightNovel/WashioSumiIsAHero'' features this for plot related reasons. Its protagonists get physically injured, despite being even younger than Yuna's team, because the {{Fairy Companion}}s aren't around to block all attacks (in fact, [[spoiler:the fairies were introduced to avoid [[MagicalGirl Heroes]] dying]]). The girls end up battered and beaten after each fight. [[spoiler:Gin's death]] scene is [[HighPressureBlood especially bloody]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', While there's no visible blood spilled, Hercules decapitates the Hydra on-screen while still inside its neck, although the Hydra grew a few more heads but still. Kinda brutal for a Disney movie.